Hello, world! Intentions

I’d like to start this page by writing about my intention behind opening it. Why have I decided to create it? Self-promotion? Expression? Opening up to the world? Desire to share? Share what? What for? With whom?

I’ve always loved writing. Sometimes it allows me to order confusing and entangled ideas. Sometimes it helps me realize that I have no idea about something. And sometimes my body strongly asks me to grab a pen or a keyboard and express through it whatever I feel or think. Sometimes that ends up being an incomprehensible intelectual jamble, sometimes something beautiful arises, and most often a little bit of both.

And I’ve never shared what I write beyond, sometimes, with one or two close ones. I’ve always been afraid of exposure: my mind tells me nothing is ever good enough, interesting enough. There’s fear of judgement, and also fear of coming out of the closet as someone who actually wants to be seen.

And from this fear that I wish to transcend, I start this webpage. I want it to be a vehicle for my expression, a container of reflections and creations that no longer stay in a private drawer but belong to others as well. I’d like to write about meditation and Buddhism, about my learnings in these areas and others, and perhaps also recover my old photos, create a gallery, and see if that motivates me to pick up photography again. We’ll see.